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11-03-2011, 04:29 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: AK | | | Ibanez prestige being detroyed by humidity!! Help!
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Update/disclaimer: I contacted sweetwater and ibanez before posting this. The "problem" is being reviewed. This thread was in no way created to slight ibanez or even with the expectation of instant consumer gratification. I just wanted a second opinion on the matter, ibanez/sweetwater are going to do what they think is right, I have provided the facts and read the warranty closely, IMO this could go a couple of ways.
Sweetwater has just sent it to Ibanez, waiting...
??!! Its hitting cold/dry season in Alaska and this is happening to my 5005EOL...its sitting in my practice room with other instruments that arent doing this at all. Ive had the bass for 4-5 months...is this a warrantee thing i can claim? I cant chalk this up to negligence, my other instruments are fine.
Its developed several deep cracks along the top, and the back is coming unlaminated from the middle layer.
Ive read the Warranty, and while it does state it does not cover damage due to temp/weather extremes, this is not an extreme weather condition. This bass, along with many others made by different companies, resides in a temperature controlled room away from heat sources and drastic changes in environment.
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11-03-2011, 04:32 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: AK | | | Showing where the bass lives. The guitars next to it are unaffected save for some minor truss rod adjustments. I took the pic below today, and since posting the thread 3 days ago the crack has started to pull away from the body.
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11-03-2011, 07:03 PM
| | | | Id diff contact Ibanez about that. Should be warranty covered Id think for that amount of damage.
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11-03-2011, 07:07 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2011 Location: Pittsburgh, PA | | | Ahhh man that's terrible
our thoughts and prayers go to you and your family |
11-03-2011, 07:15 PM
|  | America's Favorite Hot Dog! | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: CHI/NWI | | Did you know your bass is splitting in half? 
Seriously, get Ibanez on the phone, that should NEVER happen. |
11-03-2011, 07:21 PM
|  | I took the one less traveled by | | Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Reims, Champagne, France | | | It's not very kind to take a nice piece of wenge from its hot tropical forest and expose it to the rigors of Alaska.
You should be ashamed. |
11-03-2011, 07:25 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: Central FL | | Quote: |
Originally Posted by lowendgenerator Did you know your bass is splitting in half?
Seriously, get Ibanez on the phone, that should NEVER happen. | +10
Yeah that's "nfg"... |
11-03-2011, 07:42 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2011 Location: Canton, Ohio | | | Yeah, get Ibanez on the phone for that one. Them build yourself a walk in cigar humidor to practice in. |
11-03-2011, 08:23 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: AK | | | I couldnt choose who to quote, you guys are hilarious! The determining factor here is that i have 3 instruments sitting right next to the Ibby (one of which is a warwick thumb, very similiar in construction) and none of them are doing the same thing.
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11-03-2011, 08:32 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: AK | | | My Hygrometer reading
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11-03-2011, 08:34 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Boston | | | Mine never had those probs, good luck boss
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11-04-2011, 10:04 AM
|  | Tuxedo Bass® - That's Me! | | Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Hamilton, Montana | | Go to the Ibanez website and just start complaining. Ibanez Forum
It's a public forum and they don't like things like this to fester in the public's eye. |
11-04-2011, 10:47 AM
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Originally Posted by SurferJoe46  Go to the Ibanez website and just start complaining. Ibanez Forum
It's a public forum and they don't like things like this to fester in the public's eye. |
I would call them 1st, before trashing them in a public forum - they can't be that hard to reach, and it's not good form to not atleast give them the opportunity to make things right before trashing them...
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11-04-2011, 01:25 PM
| | | | If you havenht been able to get them on the phone. or receive reply from email, then posting about it on their forum with pics is excellent suggestion.
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11-04-2011, 02:14 PM
| | Tuxedo Bass® - That's Me! | | Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Hamilton, Montana | | | The reason I mentioned the Ibanez Forum, is that there are actual people who work at Ibanez and representatives of the company as moderators on the site.
I've seen them do some pretty wonderful things in the past.
Don't flame them - just post pixs and present your story. |
11-04-2011, 03:38 PM
|  | Registered User | | | | | I recently looked at the Ibanez warranty and it sucked. You had to send the bass to some location that's not really an Ibanez dealership. There is no phone number to call. Their warrantly/services dept. basically seems like a CYA. |
11-04-2011, 03:53 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: AK | | | I saw that too on the website...i could understand doing that for an electrical problem...this doesnt seem like an easily fixable situation...the worst part is i really like the bass and cant see how another one wouldnt have the same issues eventually. |
11-04-2011, 07:36 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Fort Collins, Colorado | | | They make these devices called humidifiers....many people use them in their instrument rooms.
That does look sad - worth contacting Ibby about - but you should humidify that room.
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11-04-2011, 07:41 PM
| | Tuxedo Bass® - That's Me! | | Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Hamilton, Montana | | ...yeah but ..... Quote: |
.its sitting in my practice room with other instruments that arent doing this at all. Ive had the bass for 4-5 months.
| so ---- the OTHER gear has no problem. Humidity or not, this is the only bass so affected.
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11-04-2011, 07:57 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: AK | | Quote:
Originally Posted by SurferJoe46 ...yeah but .....
so ---- the OTHER gear has no problem. Humidity or not, this is the only bass so affected. |
Thats the determining factor...I have a fender, a suhr and a Warwick within arms reach of this bass, on an interior wall away from any heat source. I made it through last winter without a humidifier as well
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